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in the meantime the federal government keeps plunging into debt. so if someone brings forward an alternative to at least give us the opportunity to provide effective oversight and to make sure that this money does go to emergency needs and doesn't just fulfill a wish list for what some cities would like to do in the future to prevent against future storms -- not that we shouldn't be debating that, but that doesn't qualify as an emergency need getting money to the people that need it now. these are future decisions. we haven't had time to assess those. we haven't had time to examine those in detail. we haven't used the process that is in place here in the united states senate to go through committees and let the committees work through, is this essential to meeting the emergency needs? or can we set this aside and spend a little more time examining it, looking at it to make sure that this is how we want to go forward? we have a habit here of throwing money at things under an emergency category and then later finding out that, one, it wasn't an emerg
in the meantime the federal government keeps plunging into debt. so if someone brings forward an alternative to at least give us the opportunity to provide effective oversight and to make sure that this money does go to emergency needs and doesn't just fulfill a wish list for what some cities would like to do in the future to prevent against future storms -- not that we shouldn't be debating that, but that doesn't qualify as an emergency need getting money to the people that need it now. these...
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Jan 23, 2013
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if the government's going to give me no assistance, then i likely wouldn't. because adding more debt, even in terms of long-term low-interest loans is still de debt, and i took out that to start this business or i took out debt to be able to get through the great recession, but i don't really have the option to take out more debt without some direct assistance like a grant that can help jump start my business, get those individuals i had employed reemployed once again and create an opportunity for our community. that decision right now for those businesses, which are life-and-death decisions, are pending, hanging by the will of the senate to act. i'm also pleased that the package that the house passed recognizes what i've been saying all along, the funding that the army corps of engineers' efforts is critical to rebuilding coastal communities and particularlparticularly new jers weakened coastal defenses. we are at the lowest of our immune system as a coastal state and we already see the biting cold. it's cold throughout the capitol today. that's how cold it
if the government's going to give me no assistance, then i likely wouldn't. because adding more debt, even in terms of long-term low-interest loans is still de debt, and i took out that to start this business or i took out debt to be able to get through the great recession, but i don't really have the option to take out more debt without some direct assistance like a grant that can help jump start my business, get those individuals i had employed reemployed once again and create an opportunity...
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Jan 24, 2013
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, but state governments as well. we simply cannot afford to keep these programs running on auto pilot nor can we afford to just tinker around the edges when we talk about reform. if we're serious about dressing our nation's debt, medicare and medicaid need structural reforms. today i want to lay out five preserving reform proposals that can help to rein in entitlement spending and put our nation on a better fiscal course. these are reasonable, rational ideas that have all enjoyed bipartisan support over the years. i believe they should be included in any deficit-reduction package. number one, we need to adjust the medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. reagans the retirement -- raising the retirement age is common sense. this idea was supported by the simpson-bowles commission and was included in the bipartisan deficit negotiations in 2011. in addition, prominent democrats including former senate budget committee chairman kent conrad have expressed support for raising the retirement age as part of a discussion on pr
, but state governments as well. we simply cannot afford to keep these programs running on auto pilot nor can we afford to just tinker around the edges when we talk about reform. if we're serious about dressing our nation's debt, medicare and medicaid need structural reforms. today i want to lay out five preserving reform proposals that can help to rein in entitlement spending and put our nation on a better fiscal course. these are reasonable, rational ideas that have all enjoyed bipartisan...
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Jan 29, 2013
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, the federal government, the state government or the local government but government generally to protect its citizens. police not on the scene cannot arrive at a mass shooting, such as newtown, in time to stop it. at columbine, the police employed techniques that are no longer used because they did not stop killings that occurred after their arrival. at virginia tech, government officials made decisions after the shooting started that some even have argued may well have led to unnecessary deaths. the president cited constitutional protection of individual rights as a basis for expanding federal power against private individuals. now, no wonder millions of americans fear that congress could enact legislation that could lead to a tyrannical federal government. i cannot accept the president's claim that -- quote -- "there will be politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty, not because that's true but because they want to gin up fear." end of quote of the president. the president reads the constitution differently than it has ever
, the federal government, the state government or the local government but government generally to protect its citizens. police not on the scene cannot arrive at a mass shooting, such as newtown, in time to stop it. at columbine, the police employed techniques that are no longer used because they did not stop killings that occurred after their arrival. at virginia tech, government officials made decisions after the shooting started that some even have argued may well have led to unnecessary...
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Jan 22, 2013
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we have to govern. it is time for to us pay attention to jobs and the economy, and the things that matter to american families. the things they talk about around the kitchen table. that was the message that was sent us from this election, and we will do -- we would do very well to liv to it. under the abuse of the current rules, all it takes to filibuster is one senator picking up the phone. that's it. doesn't even have to go to the floor and defend it. just a phone call by one senator. no muss, no fuss, no inconvenience, except for the american public. except for a nation that expects and needs government that works. a government that actually works together and finds common ground. maybe some of my colleagues believe that the senate is working as it should, that everything is fine. well, mr. president, we do not take that view. it isn't working and it needs change. the american people of all persuasions want a government that actually gets something done. the challenges are too great, the stakes are t
we have to govern. it is time for to us pay attention to jobs and the economy, and the things that matter to american families. the things they talk about around the kitchen table. that was the message that was sent us from this election, and we will do -- we would do very well to liv to it. under the abuse of the current rules, all it takes to filibuster is one senator picking up the phone. that's it. doesn't even have to go to the floor and defend it. just a phone call by one senator. no...
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Jan 24, 2013
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should be allowed to govern. all i want is the right to be able to debate, have my views heard, offer amendments amendmei might also say this, mr. president, the right of the minority is not to win. the minority doesn't have the right to win. but it sure has the right to offer amendments and to be heard. and to be able to ry try to sway peevment i have been here in the are senate when we've had amendments and amazingly enough you get some democrats and republicans in th to pass it. that rarely happens anymore today. so again, i have been talking mostly about republicans generically -- that's because they're in the minority nowvment i said the same thing about democrats when the democrats were in the minority. this is not a minority right. it's nothing less than a formula for tyranny by the minority. who said that? that was senator frist, the republican leader. again in november of 2004, when he was in the majority and we were in the minority, "this filibuster is nothing less than a formula for tyranny by the mino
should be allowed to govern. all i want is the right to be able to debate, have my views heard, offer amendments amendmei might also say this, mr. president, the right of the minority is not to win. the minority doesn't have the right to win. but it sure has the right to offer amendments and to be heard. and to be able to ry try to sway peevment i have been here in the are senate when we've had amendments and amazingly enough you get some democrats and republicans in th to pass it. that rarely...
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Jan 30, 2013
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a lot of people don't realize that the government grows and expands it costs us jobs and economic growth in the private economy and would like to have that discussion in the google this year finally. the price president said it is a statement of priority. in the past years the senate democrats evidently had no priority. tsuda talking about doing a budget, but they're talking about raising taxes. we to think of that for jobs and the economy. talking about economic growth and jobs in the worst thing you can do is raise taxes. as we get in the budget debate, i hope it will focus the light squarely where it should be and that is on the past three years democrats lack of budget and their budget this year is near them talk about it which proposes more tax increases with jobs growth in the economy. >> following the president so-called recess appointments, the courts have now ruled disappointment were illegally made, unconstitutional. so we have now is the nlrb operating under a cloud of uncertainty. i'm introducing legislation this week focused specifically on that and making sure there are no
a lot of people don't realize that the government grows and expands it costs us jobs and economic growth in the private economy and would like to have that discussion in the google this year finally. the price president said it is a statement of priority. in the past years the senate democrats evidently had no priority. tsuda talking about doing a budget, but they're talking about raising taxes. we to think of that for jobs and the economy. talking about economic growth and jobs in the worst...
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Jan 29, 2013
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government accountability office. education workforce and income security team's in washington, d.c. having received a ba in political science from west virginia university and a masters in russian studies at georgetown university, lori has been with the gao since 1984, leading a wide range of efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs. lori's work has included evaluations of federal worker training, protection of workplace quality programs as well as assessments of efforts to protect the integrity of social security numbers. lori has also led internally focused efforts to enhance training opportunities and career development for the g8 of staff. let me turn it over to andrew. >> as jessica said, the real id act reticent significant investment against identity theft and fraud. since 2005 in complying with real id, the states made tremendous progress in meeting the requirements and updating the security's for driver's licenses. just to give you a brief smattering of what that looks like him
government accountability office. education workforce and income security team's in washington, d.c. having received a ba in political science from west virginia university and a masters in russian studies at georgetown university, lori has been with the gao since 1984, leading a wide range of efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs. lori's work has included evaluations of federal worker training, protection of workplace quality programs as well as assessments of...
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they talked about the fact tha that -- that if you allowed a small minority to govern and block the governing of the majority, that that was the tyranny of the minority. and they feared that. and so i think when we consider this and we talk about the filibuster and our institution today, our united states senate, where many times the republican leader has come to the floor and said, it's going to take 60 votes. everything takes 60 votes. well, that isn't the way the founders designed it. the founders had actually very strong language for what they thought of supermajorities. everybody remembers their history. the founders came off the articles of confederation. it was a supermajority. it didn't work. it was broken. and so they only put into the constitution in five places, supermajorities. things like expelling a member and ratifying a treaty. but, otherwise, simple majorities. and now how -- how this happened? it's hard -- when the history's going to be written, it's hard to tell. but to have a leader of the senate stand up and say, "everything takes 60 votes." well, the founders never conte
they talked about the fact tha that -- that if you allowed a small minority to govern and block the governing of the majority, that that was the tyranny of the minority. and they feared that. and so i think when we consider this and we talk about the filibuster and our institution today, our united states senate, where many times the republican leader has come to the floor and said, it's going to take 60 votes. everything takes 60 votes. well, that isn't the way the founders designed it. the...
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Jan 28, 2013
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this is not government by concept of the governed. and the house must keep watch over these departments and keep them in line. that's what good oversight does, that's the responsibility we have to you, our cop stitch wents and the more than people -- constituents and the american people. [applause] on the second point, we have to offer an alternative. we can't leave the democrats to their own devices because they seem to have a pretty short memory. obamacare imposed over 20 different tax increases at a cost of over a trillion dollars. earlier this month tax rates went up further. but the democrats are already calling for higherrer taxes again. -- higher taxes again. as our house and senate leaders have said, we are not raising taxes. but we have no desire to be tax collectors for a welfare state. we have to focus on the real problem, and the real problem is spending. but we can't just respond to the democrats' proposals. we have to offer our own, and that's exactly what we're going to do. this session i'll advance reforms to protect a
this is not government by concept of the governed. and the house must keep watch over these departments and keep them in line. that's what good oversight does, that's the responsibility we have to you, our cop stitch wents and the more than people -- constituents and the american people. [applause] on the second point, we have to offer an alternative. we can't leave the democrats to their own devices because they seem to have a pretty short memory. obamacare imposed over 20 different tax...